Letter Carriers Food Drive a Big Success in Erie
Donations up over last year at Stamp Out Hunger event.
Donations up over last year at Stamp Out Hunger event.
After Saturday night's loss, the Loons have scored just two goals in their past four games and been shut out twice.
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Bridget Alex, Discover
Long before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, people were using antibiotics to combat infections.In the late 1800s, French physician Ernest Duchesne observed Arab stable boys treating sores with mold growing on saddles. Duchesne took a sample of the fungus, identified it as Penicillium and used it to cure guinea pigs infected with typhoid.
Ian Sample, Guardian
Doctors in the US have announced plans for a radical gene therapy that aims to drastically reduce the risk of heart attack, the world's leading cause of death, with a one-off injection.The researchers hope to trial the therapy within the next three years in people with a rare genetic disorder that makes them prone to heart attacks in their 30s and 40s.
Caitlin Schneider, Mental Floss
Earth is its own frontier of intrigue and unexplainable phenomena. From mysterious bloops to baffling sonic booms and puzzling hums, our planet rings with unexplained sounds. Here are just a few that continue to confound scientists.
Sabrina Weiss, Wired UK
Sex, scientifically-speaking, is generally a good thing. Men and women who enjoy an active sex life tend to be fitter and happier. Our levels of oxytocin the hormone that promotes feelings of bonding and wellbeing go up when we hug or have orgasms, making us feel more relaxed and perhaps even helping stave off anxiety and depression.
Andrew Porterfield, GLP
Organic farmers go to some lengths to avoid using synthetic pesticides on their products, and are required (at least in the United States, Canada and parts of Europe) to avoid a large number of these chemicals.Organic marketers and anti-GMO activists exaggerate these efforts, making claims that organics are pesticide-free and don't use harmful chemicals that they claim are the mainstay of conventional agriculture, and often linked in their campaigns to genetically modified crops.
Derek Lowe, Science Magazine
I wrote a couple of years ago about the long-running study of mutations in a serotonin transporter gene. Over the years, polymorphism in the gene have been correlated with all sorts of human behavior and psychiatry, in keeping with the importance of serotonin signaling in human cognition. Depression, anxiety, that whole end of human behavior seemed to be affected by just what sort of genetic variation one had.
Jesse Singal, Research Digest
To many, the statement Religion causes violence seems intuitively true. After all, one can easily summon to mind a huge number of examples, from the Crusades to warfare connected with early Islam, to the September 11th attacks and sectarian warfare in the Middle East, and on and on and on. Some liberal-minded people, particularly those of an atheist bent, will rattle off these examples as clear proof that religion is a force for evil in the world.
Lucas Joel, Eos
The next time you shut off the water at the sink, stick around for a minute and peer at the faucet spout. You might see a droplet of water form there and then pull away until, at last, it breaks free and falls through the air.
Maddie Stone, Earther
I love space. I am very excited for humans to explore space more, and I'm even okay with us going back to the Moon for starters. Space is a vast frontier of scientific discoveries waiting to be made; a chance for us to probe the mysteries of the universe and learn more about ourselves.
Nick Heil, Outside Magazine
One spring morning in 2014, before breakfast or even coffee, John All, 49, a Mount Everest climber and then a professor at Western Kentucky University, was walking near his tent on a remote Himalayan peak in Nepal called Himlung when he broke through a thin layer of snow and clattered 70 feet down a crevasse.
Josh Ockimey slammed a pair of solo home runs against left-handed pitchers, but the Gwinnett Stripers rallied for a pair of runs in the bottom of the ninth to stun the Pawtucket Red Sox, 5-4, in game two of the weekend series Saturday night at Coolray Field.
Bertens created history in the Spanish capital on Sunday by becoming the first woman to win the Madrid Open without dropping a set. In the final, she defeated Simona Halep 6-4, 6-4.
Familiar foes and the two most successful teams of the IPL, Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, clash in a mouth-watering final on Sunday.
Infinite Tucker made quite a highlight on Saturday night at the SEC Track & Field Championships
Facing clay king Rafael Nadal, 20-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas recovered from a second-set setback to stylishly move into the Madrid final.
Spain's Rafael Nadal was eliminated from the Mutua Madrid Open semi-final after he was stunned by Alexis Tsitsipas of Greece 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 here.